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Grim steel watchtowers equipped with machine-gun ports and studded along the frontier within sight of each other monitor every yard of the fence and the barren strip of no man's land behind it. The nine road, eight rail and two canal crossings are tightly guarded and brightly floodlit at night. Traffic is minutely inspected to foil escapes. Heat-sensitive devices are used to detect persons hidden in vehicles and barges, and trained German shepherd dogs roam underneath all trains to sniff out would-be escapees clinging to undercarriages...
...novel Why Shoot the Teacher? The film reportedly set all kinds of box-office records in Canada--it's set in Saskatchewan and was filmed in Alberta--and it's easy to see why. Like My Bodyguard, it emphasizes real people in real situations--a young schoolteacher in a barren Canadian farmers' town...
...Cutting and removal-the only sure way of stopping the spread of the fungus, which is borne chiefly by bark beetles from tree to tree-costs $100 million a year, to say nothing of the aesthetic price. In many Northern cities, once shaded thoroughfares are treeless and barren. In Milwaukee, where more than 100,000 elms flourished in 1956, barely one-fifth still stand. In Champaign-Urbana, Ill., there were 14,000 elms at the end of World War II. Now there are only 220. A celebrated loss occurred a year and a half ago, when one of the most...
...paper remains essentially specialized, and does not convey a full sense of the nation or the world. The Journal's foreign coverage is surprisingly skimpy for all those foreign bureaus. Some journalists say that it lumbers after news, instead of sprinting. "Considering the size of the staff," says Barren's Managing Editor Alan Abelson, "they should have more scoops, discover more stories." The paper also sometimes runs lightly edited corporate press releases on its inside pages. Some close readers detect a drop-off in the quality of its trademark front-page features. "They're letting some writing...
...headed pragmatist in the best free-enterprise tradition. Gifts were rewards for behavior I approved of; on occasion I would inform my younger brother that if he didn't give me the baseball bat he would get no birthday present. The implication being that Christmas might be equally as barren...